Writers have to come up with more names than a fertile Mormon. Sarah Weinman even found an uncomfortable confluence of main character names in two different novels. That's gotta hurt.
This fall I gave the dubious privilege of having a forties-era hooker or pickpocket named after anyone who donated $100 to save my favorite bar. That's right, some people support charities. I supported a bar. I have my priorities.
How do you name your characters? Phone book? Ex-husband?
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Phone book, maps and a big book of baby names. And then I have to sit and think real hard if I've just come up with the name of someone I know or have worked with.
Which happens more often than you'd think.
And I'm here because of the 'Wet Cardboard' comment. Not often one gets a good laugh on Rickards's blog.
Always happy to oblige, stuart.
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